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at Mike at Politicsguise.com. Thanks. And now, onto the show. My guest today is Ganesh Sitariman,

a professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School and a senior fellow

at the Center for American Progress. He's been a longtime advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren,

serving as her policy director and senior counsel. Professor Sitarman has commented on foreign

and domestic policy in the New York Times, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, and the

Christian Science Monitor, and is

the author of The Counterinsurgents Constitution, Law in the Age of Small Wars, which won the

2013 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize, and most recently, the crisis of the middle class

constitution, why income inequality threatens our republic. Professor Sturman, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much.

It's great to be here.

You know, I really enjoyed your book, and I was particularly intrigued by something I

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